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The southern Amazon red squirrel (Sciurus spadiceus), is a squirrel species from South America where it inhabits forests in much of north-western South America east of the Andes. Three subspecies are currently recognised. It is a dark red colour, or a dark brown grizzled with ochre, has whitish underparts and grows to a total length of 48 to 63 ...
As its name suggests, the Amazon dwarf squirrel is relatively small, with a head-body length of 12 to 16 cm (4.7 to 6.3 in) and a tail 8 to 16 cm (3.1 to 6.3 in) long. Adults weigh between 86 and 132 g (3.0 and 4.7 oz), with males being slightly larger than females. [ 2 ]
The northern Amazon red squirrel (Sciurus igniventris) is a squirrel species from South America. It occurs in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. References
Amazon dwarf squirrel (Microsciurus flaviventer) Gray, 1867, western Amazon basin Western dwarf squirrel ( Microsciurus mimulus ) Thomas , 1898 , Ecuador, Colombia, Panama Santander dwarf squirrel ( Microsciurus santanderensis ) Hernández-Camacho, 1957 , central Colombia
Southern Amazon red squirrel, Sciurus spadiceus In 2015, 15–17 species were left in the genus Sciurus after de Vivo & Carmignotto comprehensively reviewed South American Sciuridae for the first time in many decades and proposed numerous changes; synonymising some species and many subspecies, splitting another species, and naming new species.
Sciurini (/ s ɪ ˈ j uː r ɪ n iː /) is a tribe that includes about forty species of squirrels, [2] mostly from the Americas. It includes five living genera—the American dwarf squirrels, Microsciurus; the Bornean Rheithrosciurus; the widespread American and Eurasian tree squirrels of the genus Sciurus, which includes some of the best known squirrel species; the Central American ...
Family: Sciuridae (squirrels) Subfamily: Sciurinae. Tribe: Sciurini. Genus: Microsciurus. Amazon dwarf squirrel, Microsciurus flaviventer LR/lc; Western dwarf squirrel, Microsciurus mimulus LR/lc; Genus: Sciurus. Red-tailed squirrel, Sciurus granatensis LR/lc; Northern Amazon red squirrel, Sciurus igniventris LR/lc; Southern Amazon red squirrel ...
Squirrels are generally small animals, ranging in size from the African pygmy squirrel and least pygmy squirrel at 10–14 cm (3.9–5.5 in) in total length and just 12–26 g (0.42–0.92 oz) in weight, [8] [9] to the Bhutan giant flying squirrel at up to 1.27 m (4 ft 2 in) in total length, [10] and several marmot species, which can weigh 8 kg ...